My bio for humans: Tricia is a balanced extrovert and introvert. She's happiest when learning, dancing, and playing with doggies. She does not like to cook, but she can eat more than anyone she's ever met. She is obsessively clean but is known to create organized piles of clutter.

My bio for non-humans: Tricia Wang is a global tech ethnographer who researches how technology makes us human. She advises organizations, corporations, and students on utilizing Digital Age ethnographic research methods to improve strategy, policy, services, and products. Her research has been featured in The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Fast Company, Makeshift, and Wired. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies including Nokia and GE and numerous institutions from the UN to NASA. A Fulbright Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow, Tricia has been recognized as a leading authority by journalists, investors, and ethnographic and sociological researchers.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology and culture—the investigation of how social media and the internet affect identity-making, trust formation, and collective action. Through extensive fieldwork in China and Latin America, she has developed expertise on digital communities in emerging economies, leading to the formulation of an innovative sociological framework for understanding user interactions online.

Tricia relishes on-the-ground, hyper-immersive ethnographic fieldwork, which has provided her with a unique understanding of the experiences of edge communities. During her projects she has pioneered ethnographic techniques such as live fieldnote taking, which uses social media tools to share real-time fieldwork data.

She is a visiting scholar at New York University's Information Telecommunication Program and a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is also an advisory board member of Rev Arts in New York City. She is currently writing a book about the internet in China as an expressive space in which users uniquely shape their identities in an otherwise rigid society, a phenomenon she calls "the Elastic Self". She is the proud owner of an internet famous dog who balances stuff on her head, #ellethedog.

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Reviews From Hosts

Dear Tricia Wang San , Thank you for staying at Kyoto Garden Ryokan Yachiyo the other day. Please write the review of Yachiyo. We make your review and picture help of the improvement in the future. It is all about the guests! "KAIZEN"continuous improvement!! We are waiting for your next stay.Thank you. Best regards, Toshiyuki Nakanishi Kyoto Garden Ryokan Yachiyo.

Thank you so much for your stay, Tricia!
She stayed my room, she is so nice, warm and also well-mannered people, the room was so clean & tidied up perfectly like no one used the room! Excellent guest indeed.
Please contact me on your next trip in Tokyo, you'll be always welcomed!

Tricia is a GREAT guest! this is the third time she has stayed at my place and she could not make it easier. She is able to let herself in and is great to communicate with regarding any of the details for her stay. She left the place clean and just as I had left it when she checked in! I hope to see her again soon!

Tricia stayed at my Manhattan flat for two days and is absolutely lovely and gracious. The heating in my flat was down for one night but Tracia kind and flexible in working with me to resolve the issue. Tricia was also clean and left the flat in in great shape, great guest, welcome back anytime!

Tricia was an exceptional guest who was friendly, courteous, understanding and clean. She was a great person to meet and I look forward to having her stay again next time she is in Cincinnati! 5 STAR GUEST!